The not so well informed Whoopi Goldberg has come forward with another false claim about abortion.
The Daily Caller reported, Whoopi Goldberg claimed Wednesday that the reason abortion was legalized was that “people got tired of tripping over women in bathrooms with hangers in their body.”
Goldberg argued on ABC’s “The View” that abortion had not come about as a religious issue and that it was supposed to be “safe and clean.”
The truth is that before Roe v Wade, most “back alley” abortions were conducted by medical professionals, and the mortality rate was extraordinarily low.
Using coat hangars to conduct abortions was extremely rare. Most often women would seek out a doctor willing to illegally preform a procedure or administer drugs.
The process was almost always clean and safe. Medical technology and doctor competence has only risen since this time.
It’s very unlikely that if Roe V Wade we’re reversed, women would attempt to abort offspring with coat hangars in public bathrooms, at such a rate that anyone would “become tired” if “tripping” over those women.
“This is what frustrates me about government. Instead of taking care of the story from the beginning, they’re trying to pick up broken pieces and they’re making it worse. Why not try and empower women? Why not giving them more options when it comes to their reproductive health?” Whoopi said.
But yeh truth is, abortions are not women’s empowerment. America’s earliest feminists were appalled by abortion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, “when we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”
Susan B. Anthony, one of the most well known suffragettes produced by the United States believed that abortion was an exploitation of women according to TIME.
People like Goldberg distort reality to fit a political narrative that they do desperately desire to push.